Genus Olgania Hickman, 1979
- Olgania Hickman, V.V. 1979. Some Tasmanian spiders of the families Oonopidae, Anapidae and Mysmenidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 113: 53-79 [71-72].
Type species:
Olgania excavata Hickman, 1979 by original designation.
Introduction
The genus Olgania was originally described in the family Anapidae, and moved to the Micropholcommatidae by Platnick & Forster (1989: 76). Phylogenetic relationships were further investigated by Rix et al. (2008) and Rix & Harvey (2010)
Distribution
States
Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
The distribution of O. excavata Hickman and several new species is given by Rix & Harvey (2010)
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)
General References
Platnick, N.I. & Forster, R.R. 1989. A revision of the temperate South American and Australasian spiders of the family Anapidae (Araneae, Araneoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 190: 1-139
Rix, M.G, Harvey, M.S. & Roberts, J.D. 2008. Molecular phylogenetics of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae) using nuclear rRNA genes (18S and 28S). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 1031-1048
Rix, M.G. & Harvey, M.S. 2010. The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida, Araneae, Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. ZooKeys 36: 1-321
History of changes
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